80 Amendments of Christine ANDERSON related to 2021/2039(INI)
Amendment 2 #
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Amendment 3 #
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Amendment 4 #
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Amendment 5 #
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Amendment 6 #
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Amendment 7 #
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Amendment 9 #
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Amendment 13 #
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Amendment 14 #
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Amendment 17 #
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Amendment 20 #
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Amendment 22 #
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Amendment 26 #
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Amendment 31 #
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Amendment 35 #
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A. whereas gender mainstreaming is supposed to be a widely recognised strategy to ensure gender equality;
Amendment 36 #
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A. whereas gender mainstreaming is a widely recognised strategy tostrategy that cannot ensure gender equality;
Amendment 39 #
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B. whereas gender discrimination can often intersects withbe linked to other types of discrimination;
Amendment 40 #
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B. whereas gender discrimination oftenis perceived to intersects with other types of discrimination;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
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C. whereas gender mainstreaming measures include, among others, quotas, work-life balance measures, anti- harassment policies and gender impact assessments; whereas these measures unfortunately prioritise quantity over quality and do not support women's freedom of career
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas gender mainstreaming measures include, among others, quotas, work-life balance measures, anti- harassment policies and gender impact assessments, which because they are based on gender theories cause greater inequality;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
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D. whereas the progress in addressing sexual harassment after three years of the #MeToo movement is not sufficient, because an approach based on the habitual criminalisation of men causes greater conflict;
Amendment 56 #
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E. whereas gender-responsive budgeting consists of understanding the impact of budgetary and policy decisions on gender equality and adjusting public expenditure and revenue accordinglyis fundamentally wrong because it generates some budget headings that do not meet society's real needs;
Amendment 68 #
1. Reaffirms its strong commitment to gender equality and endorses gender mainstreaming as one of its official policy approaches to ensure itbetween men and women;
Amendment 70 #
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Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Stresses that designing measures to ensure gender equality need to incorporate an intersectional approachbetween men and women entails fostering cordiality and a healthy relationship between people;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. Welcomes the increasing number of women involved in politics, but stresecauses that we are far from reaching gender parityeir feminine view of matters helps enrich public life;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
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4. Notes the lack of data on gender mainstreaming within the EU institutions beyond data on the number of women in different positionsneed to analyse data that correspond to the social reality in order to foster the natural balance between men and women;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
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5. WelcomesRegrets the imposition of the adoption of gender action plans by all Parliament committees; notes, however, the lack of monitoring and implementation of these plans due to the incoherence caused by the inclusion of ideological criteria;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 5
5. WelcomNotes the adoption of gender action plans by all Parliament committees; notes, however, the lack of monitoring and implementation of these plans;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 6
6. WelcomNotes the adoption of a gender action plan in July 2020 and a roadmap for its implementation in April 2021; regrets, however, that most of the measures included are formulated as principles without clear targets and obligations;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 6
6. WelcomeRegrets the adoption of a gender action plan in July 2020 and a roadmap for its implementation in April 2021; regrets, however, that most of the measures included are formulated as principles without clear targets and obligationand makes the point that the principle of equality between men and women is what should always guide the thinking behind policies;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 7
7. Insists on the need tocessity of not forcing the introducetion of binding quotas in the upcoming revision of the EU electoral law;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
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8. Regrets the lack of gender- responsive recruitment procedures in ParliamentUrges recourse in recruitment procedures in Parliament to an equality between men and women that values the excellence and preparation of candidates;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 9
9. Calls for gender balance in the leadership of committees, delegations and political groups to be improved; welcomes the amendment to Rule 213(1) of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure requiring the bureau of each committee to be gender-balancedconsistent with candidates' merits, valuing the excellence of the contribution of women;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 9
9. Calls for gender balance in the leadership of committees, delegations and political groups to be improved; welcomes the amendment to Rule 213(1) of Parliament’s Rules of Procedure requiring the bureau of each committee to be gender-balancRemarks that the ratio men to women within the femm committee is pretty remarkable where lack of gender parity is concerned;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
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10. Calls for gender balance to be ensured at all levels of plenary, committee and delegation work, including when appointing coordinators, rapporteurs and shadow rapporteurs and when distributing speaking timeEncourages the balance being based on equality of opportunities and the excellent natural tendencies and interests of each sex;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the political groups to establish internal rules ensuring gender equality between men and women in their internal functioning and for the ratio of elected members resulting from the elections to be respected;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the political groups to establish internal rules ensuring gender equality in their internal functioningStresses that no amount of political will can overrun the free choice of career that male and female EU citizens make; notes that this applies to any working environment, including EP political groups;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 12
12. Notes that despite all the progress and efforts made, gender equality at all management levels of Parliament’s administration has not yet been achieved; calls for women to be prioritised for recruitment when they are under- represented and the respective merits of thequal representation of the sexes is skewed towards men or women depending on the department or committee concerned, so that trying to force artificial representation can lead to greater injustice candidates are equal inequality even towards women;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
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12. Notes that despite all the progress and efforts made, gender equality at all management levels of Parliament’s administration has not yet been achieved; calls for women to be prioritised for recruitment when they are under- represented and the respective merits of the candidates are equal;, which goes to show that there is a gap between political will and actual career choices that women and men make across the EU
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
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13. Requests the collection of dataat Parliament's own vertical and horizontal representation of the staff of the political groups and of anonymised data on pay gaps forcriteria and rules be followed in monitoring the correct and faithful compliance of the salary data of Members’ assistants, group staff or administrative staff to ensure pay transparency;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 14 – point a
a. enpursure public access to the external audit of the Anti-Harassment Committee dealing with cases involvinglegal avenues in the fight against harassment in cases involving Parliament’s staff and Members;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point b
Paragraph 14 – point b
b. carry out an external evaluation of Parliament’s existing Anti-Harassment Committee dealing withappropriately follow-up harassment within Parliament and complaints about sexual harassment among staff;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point c
Paragraph 14 – point c
c. recompose theimplement anti-harassment bodies to includemeasures, in accordance with the law in force, with the possibility of involving external legal, medical and therapeutic experts;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 – point d
Paragraph 14 – point d
d. introduce mandatory anti- harassment training for Members by making it a prerequisite for signing the Code of Appropriate Behaviourvoluntary training to teach values that promote good relations at the workplace for all Parliament staff and Members;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
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15. Commits to guaranteepromoting and supporting a good work-life balance for Members, group staff, accredited parliamentary assistants and administrative staff, in accordance with their personal choices and preferences;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
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16. WelcomeRejects the work of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality, the High-Level Group on Gender Equality and Diversity and the Gender Mainstreaming Network as leading bodies in ensuring gender mainstreaming in Parliament as it promotes ideological interests that do not reflect the real needs of women within Parliament;
Amendment 180 #
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Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
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17. Calls foronsiders the institutionalisation of the Gender Mainstreaming Network in the Rules of Procedure unnecessary;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
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18. Considers it unnecessary to commits to working more closely with the European Institute for Gender Equality to deliver regular training on gender mainstreaming for Members, group staff, parliamentary assistants and staff of committee secretariats as this does not comply with the principle of neutrality and respect for the freedom of thought of Parliament’s staff;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
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20. Calls for all missions of the committees and delegations to be gender- balanced and for the gender equality dimension to be examindemocratically balanced;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
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21. WelcomesIs perplexed at the commitment in themade in a gender action plan roadmap to ensure that conferences include gender-balanced panels and experts to examine the gender equality dimension in the specific area of focus, which aims to select experts on the basis of their gender rather than of their knowledge, particularly since the issue is of a strictly ideological nature;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
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22. Asks the relevant bodies to avoid developing and adopting dedicated guidelines to implement gender mainstreaming and to avoid the wasteful use of resources through gender budgeting;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls for the focus of parliamentary activity to be directed towards issues that are aimed at achieving the common good, avoiding the use of resources on ideological issues that run counter to political accountability;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Asks the Commission tonot to make the error of carrying out a gender impact assessment for each legislative proposal; commits to carrying out a gender impact assessment for each own initiative legislative report as this would amount to ideological interference that would affect the objective legal order of any initiative;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the Commission to scrupulously respect the legal nature of legislative or own-initiative proposals, in order to avoid any subjectivity that may prevent clear and orderly compliance with them;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls on the Commission to require legal rigour in the language used in legislative or own-initiative proposals in order to avoid the inclusion of confusing or ideological terms that compromise the objective meaning of the rules;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
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24. RegretUnderstands that, overall, gender mainstreaming has not yet been applied across the EU budget since doing so would result in an inconsistent distribution of resources;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
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25. Welcomes the fact that mitigating the social and economic impact of the COVID-19 crisis, in particular on women, was included as a general objective of the Recovery and Resilience Facility; calls on the Commission to closely monitor this provisUnion;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
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26. Calls on the Commission to strengtheneliminate the institutional framework for supporting gender mainstreaming;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Commission to systematically disaggregate data by gender upon collection and take the gender dimension into account when evaluating and reporting on EU programmesnot to seek to legitimise the manipulation of data through ideological issues with a view to obtaining conclusions predetermined in advance;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
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28. Reiterates its requests to unblock to respect Member States in their decision whether or not to follow the EU ratification of the Istanbul Convention, the horizontal anti- discrimination directive and the women on boards directive;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
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30. Calls for gender mainstreaming not to be implemented, as it is strictly ideological, in the Conference on the Future of Europe;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
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31. Requests that concrete targets to ensure gender balance wany measure concerning then naming of physical spaces of the European Parliament be adoptedprioritise quality over the quantity of workers;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
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31. Requests that concrete targets to ensure gender balance when namingmpliance with the rules governing access to and enjoyment of the physical spaces of the European Parliament be adoptensured;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
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32. Requests that an analysis of the distribution and design of Parliament’s toilets to assess the need to adapt them to the requirements of all genders be carried outbe carried out to adapt them to users' needs;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
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33. Asks for its communication strategy to be revised, including through measures such as revising Parliament’s website to include a specific section on gender equalityensure equality between men and women;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
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34. Reiterates its call forthat it is unnecessary and audit to be carried ou superfluous expense to carry out an audit to map the current situation in terms of gender equality and gender mainstreaming and make recommendations;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Calls for the establishment of a a working group composed of representatives of each political group and chaired by the gender mainstreaming standing rapporteurs of Parliament to steer the work in that area not to be established as this would constitute a misguided approach by the institutions ;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Reiterates that the principle of equality should govern the day-to-day parliamentary activity and the development of its legislative policies where respect for the freedom of thought and the dignity of individuals must be guaranteed;